1887 pamphlet Woman’s Christian Temperance Onendaga N.Y.

Interesting pamphlet showing part the culture of the period.

Inside has programme for the meeting, including:

• Devotional Exercises
• Report of Treasurer
• Reports of local Unions
• Temperance at the West, by the President
• Singing
• Collection
• Discussion, “Systematic Work in the Unions”
• Paper, “Relation of Law to Temperance”
• Discussion of the Y’s “Theory versus Principle.”
• …

4 pages, 3 printed.

Crease LL corner. Little foxing top of front.

 5 ⅛” x 4”

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment.

The WCTU was originally organized on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio, and officially declared at a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874. It operated at an international level and in the context of religion and reform, including missionary work and woman's suffrage. Two years after its founding, the American WCTU sponsored an international conference at which the International Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed. The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1883 and became the international arm of the organization.

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